Lesson #1. Load ALL of the guns you will be shooting in a stage. It was a combination rifle/pistol stage. Bank of targets, shoot them with your rifle, run about 40 yards, shoot more rifle targets from behind cover. Drop rifle, use pistol on last six targets.
I was doing really good on the rifle shooting, fast and smooth. I was calling my shots, and I knew that I wasn't going to drop many (if any points) on the rifle targets. Even the sprint was good (for a 300 pounder anyway ) Got to the pistol part, whoops. Empty gun. Flail about in surprise, waste precious seconds, reload gun, finish stage.
And the sad thing was, I was the SO for my squad, and the guy before me had made the same mistake! So I guess next time I'm told to load and make ready, it will be all of the guns for that stage.
Lesson #2. Don't forget you put the safety on when you have to engage targets that are only visable for a few seconds.
3 strings of fire on a mover. The mover passed behind multiple no shoots, so your shots had to be timed. This was a rifle stage. Par time, need 18 shots on the target. Distance increases for each string. First pass, blaze away, bunch of hits, mostly A zone. Second pass, bunch more hits, still in the A. At this point, I'm ahead of the game for my 18 hits, thinking to myself. "Wow, I'm going to shread this target, and win this stage! 0 points down, here I come!"
Moved back, put safety on. Mover started. Front sight acquired, leading, huh? Oh crap, safety on, BANG BANG target gone.
The weird thing is that I ALWAYS put the safety on when I move. And I always take it off as I shoulder the gun. But for some reason I must have played a mental trick on myself. Oh well. Lesson learned. Plus I hit the target enough in the first two strings that I still finished about average.
Lesson #3: Having a bunch of 3 gun gear on you belt WILL pull your pants off. One stage required the use of all 3 guns, and 75 yards (yikes!) of movement. I'm willing to bet that the guy who designed this stage ran track and field or something.
I shoot the rifle part pretty good, decide that I'm going to haul serious butt to the shotgun area, so I sprint the 75 yards, full tilt boogie. On my belt are 2 20 round FAL mags, about a dozen shotgun shells, 5 loaded 1911 mags, my holster, and pistol.
I had to yank my pants up before I could shoot the shotgun part, I guess I gave quite the show to the guy with the timer. Note to self, when you lose a little weight, remember to poke extra holes in the belt.
Great match. Challenging stages, lots of good folks. Denny was there but we didn't get to shoot in the same squad. Our other Utah TFLers were all AWOL. Oh well, we will have a TFL squad in the next Utah 3 gun in November.
I was doing really good on the rifle shooting, fast and smooth. I was calling my shots, and I knew that I wasn't going to drop many (if any points) on the rifle targets. Even the sprint was good (for a 300 pounder anyway ) Got to the pistol part, whoops. Empty gun. Flail about in surprise, waste precious seconds, reload gun, finish stage.
And the sad thing was, I was the SO for my squad, and the guy before me had made the same mistake! So I guess next time I'm told to load and make ready, it will be all of the guns for that stage.
Lesson #2. Don't forget you put the safety on when you have to engage targets that are only visable for a few seconds.
3 strings of fire on a mover. The mover passed behind multiple no shoots, so your shots had to be timed. This was a rifle stage. Par time, need 18 shots on the target. Distance increases for each string. First pass, blaze away, bunch of hits, mostly A zone. Second pass, bunch more hits, still in the A. At this point, I'm ahead of the game for my 18 hits, thinking to myself. "Wow, I'm going to shread this target, and win this stage! 0 points down, here I come!"
Moved back, put safety on. Mover started. Front sight acquired, leading, huh? Oh crap, safety on, BANG BANG target gone.
The weird thing is that I ALWAYS put the safety on when I move. And I always take it off as I shoulder the gun. But for some reason I must have played a mental trick on myself. Oh well. Lesson learned. Plus I hit the target enough in the first two strings that I still finished about average.
Lesson #3: Having a bunch of 3 gun gear on you belt WILL pull your pants off. One stage required the use of all 3 guns, and 75 yards (yikes!) of movement. I'm willing to bet that the guy who designed this stage ran track and field or something.
I shoot the rifle part pretty good, decide that I'm going to haul serious butt to the shotgun area, so I sprint the 75 yards, full tilt boogie. On my belt are 2 20 round FAL mags, about a dozen shotgun shells, 5 loaded 1911 mags, my holster, and pistol.
I had to yank my pants up before I could shoot the shotgun part, I guess I gave quite the show to the guy with the timer. Note to self, when you lose a little weight, remember to poke extra holes in the belt.
Great match. Challenging stages, lots of good folks. Denny was there but we didn't get to shoot in the same squad. Our other Utah TFLers were all AWOL. Oh well, we will have a TFL squad in the next Utah 3 gun in November.